Re: Any redhat people around?

[Ranjit Mathew <rmathew at hotmail dot com>]

> Since I know that there are some RedHat people on this list I wondered
> if some of them knew some more about the following:
[...]
> 
>         Red Hat Inc is in discussions with Sun Microsystems Inc about
>         launching an open source version of Sun's Java environment,
>         according to Red Hat chairman and CEO Matthew Szulik.
>         
>         [...]
>         
>         Szulik said that Red Hat has been working for five years on open
>         source versions of Java technologies such as Just In Time
>         compilers and Java Virtual Machines in a clean room environment,
>         and has requested the sponsorship of Sun to go ahead with the
>         full-scale project.
>         
>         [...]
>         
>         Szulik said that discussions between Red Hat and Sun had reached
>         a "very serious stage", but he would not estimate a timeline for
>         the delivery of an open source version of Java.
>         
>         [...]
> 
> But then again we have heard this since 1996. (Anybody remember JOLT?)

It's instructive to read James Gosling's views on Open
Source Java:

http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/06/13/HNgosling_1.html?development

And Per's speculation that this is GCJ that this article
is talking about:

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=68621&cid=6277818

Ranjit.

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